Who is Josh Owens?
Josh Owens is a Senior Rails developer at Intridea, a Washington DC based web application development firm dedicated to building highly interactive, data-driven applications for the web.
Josh was the lead Rails developer of a team of four that developed the TastyPlanner web application concept in 48 hours to win the 2007 Rails Rumble competition. TastyPlanner continues to live on today as a developing social network based around the love of food and the need to create, plan and share recipes, menus, grocery lists and more with friends, family and perfect strangers.
Josh is a Rails Core Contributor & Working with Rails Hackfest winner, and has achieved a ranking of 589 of over 9000 developers in the rails community.
Josh is also a podcaster and producer of The Web 2.0 show. He spends most days striving to write beautiful code.
